I'm not sad at all about turning 40.

I think I am at my best when my hair is short. It's easier to take care of and more of who I am. Women are conditioned to think we need long hair.

My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.

I no longer scramble blindly through hardship. I no longer emerge from a bad time feeling relieved just to have survived. Instead of despairing, I try to find the lesson within the experience.

I find when I have short hair, I feel like I have nothing to hide behind anymore.

As a woman, when you embrace where you are in life, then I think the struggle [life] isn't so hard. If you're 42 and still think you're an ingenue, then you've got a problem.

I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen